Well, I'm the proud owner of a 1923 Dunhill P shape shell. Forum member dixie posted last week of a large ESTATE of pipes he had purchased. I contacted him about the bent Dunnie, and lo and behold we struck a deal. This pipe is a real beauty!!
The blast is incredible! I haven't cleaned it up, but it really needs no cleaning. Dunhill really knew how to put a finish on their pipes in the 20's!
The stampings are crystal clear--
This pipe is really special to me, because my Grandmother was born in 1923, in Bungay, England......120 miles away from London, where this pipe was born the same year! She was an ambulance driver in WW2, and after the war she came to America.
I know the naysayers....Dunhills don't smoke any better, Yadda-Yadda.......but TO ME, this pipe is special. My Grandmother passed in 2012, at 89 years of age, and its a wonderful feeling holding this little pipe, all 92 years of it, and thinking of her. She was true Brit, teatime several times a day, made a GREAT yorkshire pudding, called the telephone a "ring-em -up", made a casserole she called "toad-in-the-hole"........ wonderful memories!
This pipe is special too, in that I also have a straight from 1923, and I've been hunting a bent from the same year for a while. (Thanks again dixie, for making this happen!). Here's the two nonagenarians pictured together:
I really think they look great together, and both have held up well over the last 92 years......
I'll smoke these on occasion, probably in quiet solitude, loaded up with GLP Westminster, and remember my Gram, and her life, and wonder about old London, and England, and what it was like.....
So, May heartfelt thanks to dixie(Steve) for making my White Whale a reality.. :worship:
If anyone gets a chance to deal with dixie, I give my highest recommendation. He sent loads of great pics, packed and shipped this thing with lightning speed... A real stand-up guy. Our forum is for the better with the likes of him!
Thanks Dixie!! :clap:
The blast is incredible! I haven't cleaned it up, but it really needs no cleaning. Dunhill really knew how to put a finish on their pipes in the 20's!
The stampings are crystal clear--
This pipe is really special to me, because my Grandmother was born in 1923, in Bungay, England......120 miles away from London, where this pipe was born the same year! She was an ambulance driver in WW2, and after the war she came to America.
I know the naysayers....Dunhills don't smoke any better, Yadda-Yadda.......but TO ME, this pipe is special. My Grandmother passed in 2012, at 89 years of age, and its a wonderful feeling holding this little pipe, all 92 years of it, and thinking of her. She was true Brit, teatime several times a day, made a GREAT yorkshire pudding, called the telephone a "ring-em -up", made a casserole she called "toad-in-the-hole"........ wonderful memories!
This pipe is special too, in that I also have a straight from 1923, and I've been hunting a bent from the same year for a while. (Thanks again dixie, for making this happen!). Here's the two nonagenarians pictured together:
I really think they look great together, and both have held up well over the last 92 years......
I'll smoke these on occasion, probably in quiet solitude, loaded up with GLP Westminster, and remember my Gram, and her life, and wonder about old London, and England, and what it was like.....
So, May heartfelt thanks to dixie(Steve) for making my White Whale a reality.. :worship:
If anyone gets a chance to deal with dixie, I give my highest recommendation. He sent loads of great pics, packed and shipped this thing with lightning speed... A real stand-up guy. Our forum is for the better with the likes of him!
Thanks Dixie!! :clap:
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